History Day 2008
     at DeLaSalle: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
     State Competition: Sunday, April 27, 2008

              Minnesota Historical Society

              Mr. Marrin's Web Page



DeLaSalle High School Regional Entrants History Day 2008
Projects highlighted in bold text advanced to
State History Day, April 27, at the University of Minnesota.

2008 State Awards are in purple.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITS
• Conflict and Compromise: The Kenny Experiment – Genevieve Bettin - 4th PLACE
• The Honeywell Project: A Minnesota Compromise about the Vietnam and Cold War Conflicts – Matt Jarvis
• The Volstead Act – Michael Van De Weghe – Honorable Mention
• Rivera the Red – Claudia Corzine
• Little Rock Nine – Katheryn Tabor
• Ukrainian Genocide – Maria Voronchak - HONORABLE MENTION
• Cesar Chavez – Marlee Castillo - 5th PLACE

GROUP EXHIBITS
• Baseball on Trial: The Black Sox Scandal of 1919 – Jesse Carroll Alex Clohesey, Ryan Russell, Will Watson - 5th PLACE
• The Great Starvation Experiment – Laura Kniffin, Katie Streff, Tess Melby - BEST MINNESOTA HISTORY PROJECT
• A Macabre Minnesota: Sterilization of its Feeble Minded – Eva Rajtar, Melissa Anderson, Annie Bathke
• Morrill Hall Takeover – Claire Wild Crea and Lizzie Houns - 2nd PLACE, QUALIFIES FOR NATIONALS
• Gertrude Bell – Abby Fogg, Maddie Lieske, Katie Paulson - HONORABLE MENTION
• The Orphan Trains: A Compromise for a Conflicted Society – Amber Barry and Rachel Dorn - HONORABLE MENTION

INDIVIDUAL DOCUMENTARIES
• Rivals on Rainy Lake – Heidi Fahning
• Eubie Blake: A Hundred Years of Ragtime – Andi Akpe - HONORABLE MENTION
• African American Soldiers in Vietnam – LeTitia Small – Honorable Mention
• Bloody Sunday – Justin Westad - HONORABLE MENTION

GROUP DOCUMENTARIES
• Japanese Language School of WWII – Maurissa McNellis, Ellie Graiziger - Honorable Mention
• The Man Who Changed Baseball – Kelly Sullivan, Rachael Rogers, Jannon Stewart-Garcia- HONORABLE MENTION
• Conflict in the Classroom: 1970 Minneapolis Public School Teacher’s Strike – Jane Wageman and Katie Theil - 2nd PLACE, QUALIFIED FOR NATIONALS
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area: An Embattled Wilderness – Jordan Hoeft, Ellie Engelen, Brian Gosz - 4th PLACE

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCES
• Lenny Bruce: Conflict in Comedy – Olivia James - HONORABLE MENTION
• Frank Oppenheimer – John Bliss - TOPICAL AWARD: Best Upper Midwest Jewish History

WEB PAGES
• The Conflict and Compromise of Barbie Doll: Tiffany Trawick - 4th PLACE
• The Minneapolis Spokesman: Victoria Oyewole, Katie Faulkner, Marisha Randle - 2nd PLACE, QUALIFIES FOR NATIONALS

RESEARCH PAPERS
• Common Sense: How Thomas Paine’s Refusal to Compromise Created the Conflict from Which the American Nation was Born – Ellison Griep -HONORABLE MENTION
• St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: Conflict and Compromise – Sasha Savinkina - HONORABLE MENTION
• Conflict and Compromise in South Africa: The Second Boer War, 1899-1902 – Ravi Knutson - 4th PLACE